Benjamin Booker
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“POMPEII STATUES” “SAME KIND OF LONELY” “REBECCA LATIMER FELTON TAKES A BBC” “SLOW DANCE IN A GAY BAR”
Benjamin Booker’s new album pulls no punches, sonically or lyrically. LOWER is his first full-length album in eight years, and it will often disorient you, nook you and make you sit in discomfort. It is also completely magnetic.
Booker’s calling playing cards for the album weren’t an apparent pair: Mobb Deep and The Jesus and Mary Chain. Co-produced by esteemed beatmaker Kenny Segal, LOWER is a report that Booker mentioned he could not have made a decade in the past.
On this session, he talks about why he thinks that ought to all the time be the objective. Booker additionally talks about his minimalist strategy to manufacturing and the way parenthood spurred him to jot down a music about gun violence.
This episode of World Cafe was produced and edited by Miguel Perez. Our senior producer is Kimberly Junod and our engineer is Chris Williams. Our programming and reserving coordinator is Chelsea Johnson and our line producer is Will Loftus.
